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Delaware: 12th-Grade Standards

DE.12.C1. Content Standard: Civics

Students will examine the structure and purposes of governments with specific emphasis on constitutional democracy.

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Students identify differences in structure and purpose of a government from analyzing its culture or history.

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Students analyze the structure of different governments to explain why they differ.

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Students analyze the ways in which the structure and purposes of different governments around the world reflect differing ideologies, cultures, values, and histories.

DE.12.C2. Content Standard: Civics

Students will understand the principles and ideals underlying the American political system.

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Students explain why political parties exist in a democracy.

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Students explain how political parties contribute to democratic government.

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Students examine and analyze the extra-Constitutional role that political parties play in American politics.

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Students explain how the structures of government have adapted over time to reflect changes in American society and culture.

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Students understand that the functioning of the government is a dynamic process which combines the formal balances of power incorporated in the Constitution with traditions, precedents, and interpretations which have evolved over the past 200 years.

DE.12.C3. Content Standard: Civics

Students will understand the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of United States citizens.

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Students explain why citizens need to participate in a democratic society.

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Students explain ways in which citizens can participate in a democratic society.

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Students understand that citizens are individually responsible for keeping themselves informed about public policy issues on the local, state, and federal levels; participating in the civic process; and upholding the laws of the land.

DE.12.C4. Content Standard: Civics

Students will develop and employ the civic skills necessary for effective, participatory citizenship.

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Students identify situations in which communicating with government agencies would benefit citizens.

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Students explain how to communicate with government agencies.

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Students develop and employ the skills necessary to work with government programs and agencies.

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Students explain how to organize or work within a political party to elect a candidate.

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Students explain how different citizen's groups have engaged in protest against a government or other official group.

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Students argue for or against a proposed policy to an appropriate commission or task-force.

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Students understand the process of working within a political party, a commission engaged in examining public policy, or a citizen's group.

DE.12.E1. Content Standard: Economics

Students will analyze the potential costs and benefits of personal economic choices in a market economy.

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Students explain how markets create incentives that impact decisions of individual consumers, producers, and government.

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Students explain how competition creates efficiency in markets.

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Students explain how government policies can impact economic choices.

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Students demonstrate how individual economic choices are made within the context of a market economy in which markets influence the production and distribution of goods and services.

DE.12.E2. Content Standard: Economics

Students will examine the interaction of individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments in a market economy.

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Students explain why an economy is interdependent.

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Students explain how government policies can impact economic stability.

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Students develop an understanding of how economies function as a whole, including the causes and effect of inflation, unemployment, business cycles, and monetary and fiscal policies.

DE.12.E3. Content Standard: Economics

Students will understand different types of economic systems and how they change.

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Students identify challenges faced by a country transitioning from a command to a market economy, and explain why the economic goals will change in that country.

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Students explain how emphasizing specific economic goals will affect a country's economy, and analyze a country's effectiveness in achieving its economic goals.

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Students explain how emphasizing specific economic goals in a country will change incentives for producers and consumers.

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Students analyze the wide range of opportunities and consequences resulting from the current transitions from command to market economies in many countries.

DE.12.E4. Content Standard: Economics

Students will examine the patterns and results of international trade.

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Students explain why producers and consumers in different nations choose to trade.

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Students explain how international trade will affect a nation's standard of living.

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Students explain how governments impact the economic decisions of producers and consumers engaging in international trade.

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Students analyze and interpret the influence of the distribution of the world's resources, political stability, national efforts to encourage or discourage trade, and the flow of investment on patterns of international trade.

DE.12.G1. Content Standard: Geography

Students will develop a personal geographic framework, or 'mental map,' and understand the uses of maps and other geo-graphics.

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Students identify the geographic principles of 'hierarchy,' 'accessibility,' 'diffusion,' and 'complementarity' found in mapped patterns.

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Students identify geographic patterns which emerge when data is mapped, and analyze mapped patterns through the application of such common geographic principles as 'hierarchy,' 'accessibility,' 'diffusion' and 'complementarity.'

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Students identify the correct data to apply to a geographic problem.

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Students explain how a societal problem can be solved through geographic analysis of mapped patterns.

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Students explain how technology can be used to create and analyze mapped patterns.

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Students apply the analysis of mapped patterns to the solution of problems.

DE.12.G2. Content Standard: Geography

Students will develop a knowledge of the ways humans modify and respond to the natural environment.

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Students explain how a human change to the environment alters the way energy is used in natural ecosystems.

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Students predict the consequences of human alterations to the natural environment.

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Students explain how understanding the ways in which people perceive the natural environment will help to understand their behavior.

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Students understand the Earth's physical environment as a set of interconnected systems (ecosystems) and the ways humans have perceived, reacted to, and changed environments at local to global scales.

DE.12.G3. Content Standard: Geography

Students will develop an understanding of the diversity of human culture and the unique nature of places.

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Students explain how different cultural values shape the character of places.

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Students explain how the geographic convergence and divergence of cultures will affect changes in the character of places.

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Students explain how places are globally interdependent.

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Students understand the processes which result in distinctive cultures, economic activity and settlement form in particular locations across the world.

DE.12.G4. Content Standard: Geography

Students will develop an understanding of the character and use of regions and the connections between and among them.

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Students explain the advantages and disadvantages of using human and physical features as boundaries for regions.

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Students demonstrate an ability to construct a region from a given data set.

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Students explain how and why regions change over time in order to analyze and solve problems.

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Students apply knowledge of the types of regions and methods of drawing boundaries to interpret the Earth's changing complexity.

DE.12.H1. Content Standard: History

Students will employ chronological concepts in analyzing historical phenomena.

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Students explain the causes and effects of historical ideas or trends.

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Students apply the interpretation of historical materials, ideas, and trends to contemporary issues.

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Students analyze historical materials to trace the development of an idea or trend across space or over a prolonged period of time in order to explain patterns of historical continuity and change.

DE.12.H2. Content Standard: History

Students will gather, examine, and analyze historical data.

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Students explain how to identify the differences between historical facts and historical interpretations.

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Students explain how to use documents and artifacts to conduct research and draw conclusions.

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Students analyze a given historical problem, explain how to research solutions, and identify difficulties encountered during research.

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Students develop and implement effective research strategies for investigating a given historical topic.

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Students examine and analyze primary and secondary sources in order to differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.

DE.12.H3. Content Standard: History

Students will interpret historical data.

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Students explain how the way that historical research is conducted will affect the conclusions drawn from that research.

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Students analyze a historian's personal background to explain how it will affect the historian's conclusions.

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Students compare competing historical narratives, by contrasting different historian's choice of questions, use and choice of sources, perspectives, beliefs, and points of view, in order to demonstrate how these factors contribute to different interpretations.

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